>>11342492
Boring nerd stuff warning: how it worked in our real history:

After the First Servile War (massive slave revolt in Sicily) a complete ban on slaves carrying weapons was passed. A story was cited where a slave is initially praised for saving his master during hunting trip. However the Romans were really into "letter of the law" and the slave was executed after someone pointed out that he broke that law.

>>11343158
This is actually kind of a valid concept - gladiators were used as private armies during the unstable last years of the Republic.I'm not absolutely certain but I would assume practically all gladiators were slaves (notably many of them declined to be freed because it was a surprisingly stable career closer to show wrestling than how it's commonly depicted.)